Have finally written on this, might follow with a much longer piece later.
"A few themes that pervade the judgment and they are 1) Self-contradiction; 2) Intellectual chicanery and 3) Bankruptcy of imagination."
Demonetisation was, in effect, regime change
A functional democracy has checks and balances to limit the arbitrary use of state power.
Each one of those - in-party decision-making, Parliamentary process, bureaucratic caution, judiciary, press, civil society - failed.
That was the beginning of the unwinding of Indian democracy.
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In the history of India, seven million lives have never been paralysed in one stroke..
This is never contemplated under this Constitution. Which is why this kind of matter has never come before this court.
It is today, Kashmir. Tomorrow it could be Nagaland.
State has to be citizen's benefactor. All restrictions on rights have to be for citizens' benefits. Cannot be abrogative of the rights.